[NCC] CQ WW CW

[Bruce A. Manning]

Report from Radio Station NJ3K on the CQ WW CW. I operated as my usual 
Low Power, Single Operator, Assisted. For what it's worth here are my 
comments.

I thought conditions Friday night were poor. 20, 15, and 10 were pretty 
well dead as can be expected. I was a little surprised at 20 being dead 
as I had hoped to work a few there. 40 and 80 were the only bands that 
had any activity so I stayed there until 0300 local time.

After 4 hours of sleep (I am 74 years old so staying up 48 hours is very 
difficult) I got back on at 0800 local Saturday morning. I went to15 and 
10 and things were better but still not great. Saturday at 1300 local 
things started to pick up a little. I went to 20 and did okay. But still 
nothing to get excited about.  Sunday at 0700 local I had a good run on 
10 for 3 hours or so. (Now remember my little peanut whistle station is 
a long way from loud, so a good run for me would be a disaster for the 
big guns.) Around noon Sunday I went to 15 and did pretty good for a 
couple of hours. Sunday morning and afternoon 20, 15 and 10 were what I 
had wished for. As conditions changed with the sun going down, I swung 
the Yagi South and worked a bunch of the Caribbean and South American 
stations.  Pointing the beam north and picked up a bunch of JA's and a 
BY. Also added a few from the South East Asian area. The final 3-4 hours 
were difficult as I was on 40, but at least conditions on 40 were back 
to normal and I could work the EU okay, where Saturday EU in the evening 
was pretty well dead.

Callsign: NJ3K Contest: CQWWCW
  Band     QSOs     Pts   ZN  Cty  Pt/Q
    1.8      15      31    7    8   2.1
    3.5      64     161   11   33   2.5
      7     169     457   17   70   2.7
     14     316     913   25   78   2.9
     21     295     855   25   83   2.9
     28     345    1012   24   95   2.9
  Total    1204    3429  109  367   2.8
Score: 1,632,204
  73
  Bruce NJ3K

1 Mult = 2.5 Q's